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...preliminary report of the Task Force on General Education, released in October by a committee chaired by English professor Louis Menand and philosophy professor Alison Simmons. The report, whose final version was approved by the Faculty last month, said that the Core Curriculum??s “emphasis on the disciplines may be misplaced...
...during her six years as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.Yet Massachusetts Hall is a far cry from Fay House. The challenges Faust faces as president—from laying the groundwork for a campus in Allston to uniting a balkanized university to implementing an uninspiring new curriculum??are of an entirely different nature and order of magnitude from anything she has previously faced. How she handles those challenges, how she defines her own role, and what she prioritizes will shape Harvard for years to come.Harvard is at a crossroads. After years of stagnancy, former University...
...relevant courses.Yet as a final report gave way to legislation, faculty debate, amendments, and a final vote, we became increasingly disillusioned. Now, General Education looks likely to achieve just the opposite of what it initially promised.The problem is not its philosophy, which is generally sound. Unlike the Core Curriculum??s insipid promise to teach “approaches to knowledge,” the new system promises to emphasize the content of classes, integrate different academic worldviews, and, in the report’s words, “connect in an explicit way what students learn at Harvard...
After four years at Harvard, English professor Louis Menand—a mastermind behind the general education program that will replace the Core Curriculum??will return to New York City for a sabbatical. “I am Class of ’07 too, in a way,” Menand wrote in an e-mailed statement last week. For the next year, The New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author will be a fellow at the Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library, where he will work...
...wonder if even the curriculum??s designers admire its startling unoriginality. Former Dean of the Faculty, William C. Kirby’s words on the vote were reminiscent of Communist China (as he acknowledged): "The motion was passed unanimously although many comrades were opposed." It is no doubt difficult to get even a fraction of our faculty to agree on anything, but their lingering concerns with regard to this important vote point to serious flaws...